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Academic/Research/Museums Sites
The
African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the
Study of Black History and Culture
This exhibit presents four areas of the Library of Congress
African-American Mosaic exhibit: Colonization, Abolition, Migrations, and
the WPA. More detail of the exhibit is available in the printed
publication
available in Ramsey Library.
The
African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship
This site brings rare and unique items from the Library of Congress' incomparable African American
collections to the National Digital Library. "The presentation is not only a highlight of what is on
view in this major black history exhibition, but also a glimpse into the
Library's vast African American collection. Both include a wide array of
important and rare books, government documents, manuscripts, maps, musical
scores, plays, films, and recordings."
African
American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A.P. Murray Collection
"The Daniel A. P. Murray Pamphlet Collection presents a panoramic and
eclectic review of African-American history and culture, spanning almost
one hundred years from the early nineteenth through the early twentieth
centuries, with the bulk of the material published between 1875 and 1900.
Among the authors represented are Frederick Douglass, Booker T.
Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Benjamin W. Arnett, Alexander Crummel,
and Emanuel Love."
Africans In America
A major collection of images, documents, stories, biographies, and
commentaries on American's journey through slavery. This is a
companion site to the Public Broadcasting Services (PBS) documentary,
Africans in America.
Afro-American:
The Black History Museum
Presents interactive exhibits to some major events and people in black
history.
American
Memory Historical Collections
A major component of the Library of Congress National Digital Library Program,
this site includes multimedia collections
of digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures, and
text from the Library's Americana collections. Browse the African American
history collection.
The
Black Highlanders Collection (Ramsey Library Special Collection)
Collection Description: "Although not a "comprehensive" history of
African-American life in Asheville, N. C., this collection contains
important institutional and biographical materials from the late
nineteenth century until 1972."
Documenting the American
South (UNC-Chapel Hill)
Excellent site. Provides access to digitized primary materials that offer
Southern perspectives on American History.
Guide
to African American Documentary Resources in North Carolina
North Carolina African American Archives Group, School of Library and
Information Science, North Carolina Central University.
The King Center
The King Center is the official, living memorial dedicated to the
advancement of the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The King
Library and Archives contains important records that document the impact
of the civil rights movement.
National Civil Rights
Museum.
Located in the Lorraine Motel, scene of the assassination of Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr, this museum was designed to help visitors better
understand the history and lessons of the American Civil Rights
Movement.
Our Shared History
This National Parks Service (NPS) page provides links to online tours of
NPS sites dedicated to the preservation of African American heritage, to
resources about and maps of the Underground Railroad, and to other tours
of the Historic South. It also features links to articles and books.
Recent
Acquisitions in African-American History & Literature
Original materials collected by the University of Virginia Library Special
Collections Department.
Resources
in Black Studies
Provides links to sites for current and historical information about
people of African descent in the United States, Africa, the Caribbean,
Latin America, and Europe.
Schomburg
Center for Research in Black Culture
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is a national research
library devoted to collecting, preserving and providing access to
resources documenting the experiences of peoples of African descent
throughout the world. This page provides links to digital visual resources
of African Americans in the 19th century and to major online exhibitions.
This site also has links to selected Internet resources on Africa and the
African Diaspora.
The South Asheville Colored Cemetery, 1840-1943 (Ramsey
Library Special Collection)
Information and documentation on Asheville's early African-American
burial ground.
UNCA Ramsey Library Special Collections
Finding aids for
manuscripts, oral histories, photographs, archives, and other
information related to African Americans
in Western North Carolina.
Valley
of the Shadow
Primary resources for the Civil War, including
official records, letters and diaries, maps, images, and soldiers'
dossiers. University of Virginia Center for Digital History.
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Directories and Searchable Sites
AfricaBib.org
Two searchable databases:
- Africa Women's Bibliographic Database, over 19,000
citations, 1986 to the present, for books, articles, government
documents, and other recources.
- Africana Periodical Literature Bibliographic Database,
over 26,000 articles from 200 international journals in English and
other languages.
Black Facts Online
Search for black history facts for any day of the year or search for facts
by keyword.
Roadmap
to African American and Diversity Resources
Browse resources arranged by the Library of Congress classification
system. Extensive links to both primary and secondary resources.
Sonja Haynes Stone
Center Library for Black Culture and History Guide to the Web (UNC-Chapel
Hill)
A searchable guide to over 600 Web sites that also includes a browsable
subject guide. Click on the Center home page for information about the
Center's exhibits and
lecture series.
Voice of the Shuttle -
Minority Studies
Extensive links to African American resources in the humanities.
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Slave History
American
Slavery: A Composite Autobiography (via NC LIVE; UNCA users only)
Search slave narratives collected from 17 states during the 1930's by the
WPA. See also the Born
in Slavery site from the Library of Congress
Amistad Links
A comprehensive listing of links to sitesabout the history of the AMISTAD,
the AMISTAD incident, and its legacy.
Harriet Tubman Resource
Centre on the African Diaspora
A digitalized research facility that focuses on the movement of Africans
to various parts of the world, particularly the Americas and the Islamic
lands of North Africa and the Middle East. Affiliated with the UNESCO
"Slave Route" Project, the Centre provides links to
numerous sites of interest to scholars of the Diaspora.
North American
Slave Narratives, Beginnings to 1920
"Available here for the first
time will be all the narratives of fugitive and former slaves published in
broadsides, pamphlets, or book form in English up to 1920. Also included
are many of the biographies of former slaves published in English before
1920." (Introduction)
Remembering
Slavery
Former slaves tell their story. Interviews recorded in the 1930’s and
1940’s.
Slave
Trade Archives Project
The purpose of this project created by UNESCO is to preserve primary
documents concerning the transatlantic slave. Access to electronic
documents is provided by links to the archives of institutions
participating in the project.
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Current News\Entertainment
Africana.com
Comprehensive gateway to the black world.
African American World
(PBS)
Browse by category (arts, living,
history, politics, people, video) or search for a specific person.
Includes a special site for kids.
African American Web
Connection
Provides links to sites that discuss many areas of African American
culture and history. Includes special pages for kids.
Organizations
Association for the Study of African
American Life and History
Established in 1915 by Carter G. Woodson, this organization founded Black History
Month. Publishes the
Journal of African American History (formerly the Journal of Negro
History) and the Bulletin of Black History.
NAACP
The NAACP, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is
the oldest, largest and strongest civil rights organization in the United
States. Provides links to other civil rights organizations.
National Urban League
The League is a nonprofit, community-based organization headquartered in
New York City, with affiliates in 34 states and the District of Columbia.
The mission of the League is to assist African Americans in the
achievement of social and economic equality.
Nation of Islam (NOI)
Provides historical information about the Nation, the speeches of Minister
Louis Farrakhan, and online access to the NOI newsletter, the Final
Call.
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Journal Articles
Aspects of African American history and culture can be found in
all subject disciplines. For a complete list of electronic indexes and
databases available in Ramsey Library
see
Electronic
Resources by Subject.
Specific Periodical Databases (UNCA Users only)
Academic Search Premier.
Multi-disciplinary database with indexing for
more than 8,000 publications and full text for
4,500+ of those titles. PDF backfiles to 1975
or further.
America History and Life
Indexes the scholarly literature on American history.
Includes abstracts.
Humanities Full Text
Indexes major scholarly journals in the humanities. Includes some full-text.
JSTOR
The scholarly journal archive; provides full
text for over 450 journals covering a broad array of
disciplines. UNCA collections include Arts and Sciences I, II, III, and
IV.
LexisNexis Academic. News and wire services; company, industry
and market information; resources for legal and political research,
including case law; medical news; government information.
Project Muse. Search over 200 full-text journals from major
university presses.
Locating Articles in Ramsey Library
Search the online catalog to determine whether a certain journal is
located in Ramsey Library or is in the Western North Carolina Library
Network (WNCLN). The catalog record will indicate:
- whether we have a current print or online subscription
- which years of the periodical we own
- the format (bound, microform, online) of older issues.
Obtaining periodicals not owned by Ramsey Library
- Check the online catalog. If ASU or WCU owns the title, you can
request it through ABC Express.
- If the title is available in online in full-text, you can print the
article from the computer.
- If the title is not at UNCA, ASU, or WCU, you may request an article
copy through Interlibrary Loan.
- Detailed information about
ABC Express and
Interlibrary Loan is
available at the Reference Desk.
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